RE: 50 yard shots
 

My wife went to the range with me last night while i was working on getting used to my new sight. I was happily shooting at the 25 yard target (paper animal target with a raccoon), when she says "honey shoot the elk target". So i look for the elk and see it attached to the 45 yard target and decide to give it a shot. Well since i only have the first 2 pins set i promptly sent the first arrow under the target and into the grass.

Fortunately it only took her about 30 seconds to find the arrow for me after i told her how much they cost :)

after that i did pretty well. I need to get my short yardage act together first then i will start practicing the long shots.

RE: 50 yard shots
 

I would explain why I've set myself a limit for 30 yards and under, but somebody would take offense and start in on that "holier than thou" BS. Suffice it to say I'm matured as a hunter well beyond the point where I feel I MUST make a kill to have a successful hunt.